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<p>This fun and diverse collection of 15 Orff arrangements with unison vocal lines provides songs for every season. Some of the arrangements also include a piano accompaniment, and most include other rhythmic instruments. Each song includes a page of teaching suggestions and ideas. Suitable for grades K-6.</p>

Songs for Every Season

Orff Book

A fun and
  diverse collection of 15 winter and Christmas Orff arrangements with unison
  vocal lines. Some of the arrangements also include a piano accompaniment, and
  most include other rhythmic instruments. Each song includes a page of
  teaching suggestions and ideas.

Snow Songs to Celebrate the Season

Orff Instrumental Parts

Editors Choice Year

<p>This Orffestration is a driving setting of a traditional English carol that dates back to the mid 1700s. With a fun syncopated back beat, this is a real crowd pleaser, and it can also be used to teach a variety of musical concepts!</p>

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Orff Instrumental Parts With summary, teaching tips & ideas

Super-fun to sing and play. A terrific piece with both sung parts (A section) and spoken parts (B section). Includes Orff instrumention and body percussion. Contains teaching tips and ideas.

Ice Cream and Lollipops

Orff Instrumental Parts with summary, teaching tips & ideas

Your kids will
  love this little story about that little tree on the lot that nobody chooses.
  This original composition with Orffestration and piano accompaniment is in
  chorus-refrain form and includes a summary and teaching tips and ideas. With
  some minor changes and differentiation, it can be used at all levels.

Wally the Christmas Tree

American folk song with somewhat simplistic instrument parts that allow
  you to highlight this beautiful melody and your students young voices. Best
  suited for upper elementary.

Shenandoah

This Orffestration depicts church bells ringing at Christmastime and includes an optional hand bell or tone chime part that will really help make this work come alive! Perfect for the upper-elementary level, this arrangement in ABAB form with an introduction and ending can be used to teach a variety of musical concepts and comes with teaching tips and ideas.

Bells of the Holiday Season

This is a nice
  Orffestration to kick off the school year with. The lyrics are all about the
  fall and the changes we see all around us. Well suited for the upper grades,
  the piece begins in A minor and then transitions to the relative major in the
  refrain. Included with the score is a summary of the work along with teaching
  tips and ideas.

Autumn Winds

A song all about the excitement and
  anxious waiting for Christmas that captures that feeling of joyful
  anticipation. Great Orff instrument parts along with fun lyrics. Your older
  students will love this piece in verse-refrain form. Summary and teaching tips
  and ideas are included with the score.

Christmas Time Is Almost Here

A surreal Orff
  intrumentation setting about winter. Slow and contemplative, this dreamlike
  arrangement is based on repeated ostinatos and has lots of interesting and
  challenging instrumental parts. Includes teaching tips and ideas along with
  the score.

Winter Dreams

This Orffestration sets the traditional Austrian Christmas carol in a simplistic manner in an effort to capture its gentle message with Orff instruments. Perfect for students in the fourth or fifth grades, this arrangement allows for the teaching of a variety of musical concepts and comes with teaching tips and ideas.

Still, Still, Still

Written for second graders, this Orffestration is also challenging enough to be used in third grade. The temple block mimics the beat of the clock at the end of the chorus and helps to create some anxious moments of anticipation. In verse/refrain form and a final coda with lyrics, this fun work is great for teaching many musical concepts. Complete with teaching tips, ides and a piano accompaniment.

Waiting For Christmas Morning

A Winter Day

This Orffestration is based on the traditional Irish folk song and is perfect for St. Patrick's Day. Includes Orff instrumentation, piano accompaniment, teaching tips and ideas, and a dance.

When I Was Young

Written for second graders, this Orffestration works well with second or third graders and can even be done with first graders by leaving out some barred parts and utilizing the piano accompaniment. A-B1-A-B2-A form with lyrics, this energetic work is great for teaching many musical concepts. Complete with teaching tips and ideas!

In the Winter

Great number to bring in the spring season with your first through third grade students, this Orffestration offers a lively, catchy melody in an A-B1-C-A-B2-C-A form. Includes a piano accompaniment along with Orff instrumentation.

A Song About Spring

Kids always love songs about sledding and having fun in the snow - and they will love this Orffestration! Written for second graders, this I-V arrangement is in ABAB form with a swing feel and comes complete with teaching tips and ideas.

Glidin' and Slidin'

This Orffestration in D minor depicts the journey of the Magi. In addition to the Orff instrumentation, the score calls for djembe, tambourine, and finger cymbals, which help give the work a mystical quality. Perfect for upper-elementary students, this work in ABABA form can be used to teach many musical concepts and comes with teaching suggestions and ideas.

Magi From the East

Inspired by the book Snowmen at Night, this challenging yet attainable work for upper-elementary students has a haunting dance-like feel to it. Using the book when learning the work adds a wonderful cross-curricular component to the lessons. Complete with teaching tips and ideas, this arrangement is perfect for teaching a variety of musical concepts.

The Snowmen's Ball

A great
  Orffestration for younger students, with just enough fright built in to stir
  kids' imagination in this fun little piece about jack-o'-lanterns. Orff with
  piano accompaniment, this work in A-B1-A-B2-A form includes a summary and
  teaching tips and ideas.

Pumpkins, Pumpkins

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